netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: revert misguided compiler warning fix on ipv6_exthdrs

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Date:	Sun, 15 Dec 2013 20:31:31 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hannes@...essinduktion.org
Cc:	hkchu@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: revert misguided compiler warning fix
 on ipv6_exthdrs_len

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:23:22 +0100

> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 06:18:06PM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
>> This essentlally reverts commit f52d81dc27c3456c702e83183035142c222acdc7
>> ("ipv6: fix compiler warning in ipv6_exthdrs_len") and silences the
>> warning with uninitialized_var.
> 
> David, please discard this. Jerry already posted a nicer cleanup.

I can't resolve these two patches in any reasonable way.

Specifically, whether I revert your patch or not, I cannot get Jerry's
patch to apply cleanly.

I can't figure out what Jerry's patch is against at all.
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